Absorption Quote by Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.

— Baltasar Gracian

Sometimes we talk to ourselves because its hard for others to understand.

— Anonymous

When people talk about others, I can hear them speak about themselves.

— Anonymous

“Conversation itself has rules, which is why the conversationalist who insists that others must speak his language is a boor. To have a voice…

— Terry Nardin

Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a…

— Allen Ginsberg

When you talk to yourself, at least you know that someone is listening.

— Craig Bruce

To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own…

— Oriana Fallaci

When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement.

— Bryant McGill

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

— Michel de Montaigne

We often talk to ourselves in ways that we would never let a stranger or even a friend talk to us.

— John Spence

One advantage to talking to yourself, is that you know at least somebody is listening.

— SAM (THE BEST